Studio Banana TV interviews Benedetta Tagliabue from the celebrated studio Miralles-Tagliabue, authors of the Enric Miralles library in Palafolls and the Gas Natural tower in Barcelona.
Library in Palafoll:
The new building shows a clear desire to be compatible with its urban surroundings:
the small scale of the neighborhood of La Barceloneta… the nearby houses and the park… the new tall buildings of Barcelona.
It has the verticality of an office tower, and the fragmentation of a series of constructions of different scales which in the end form a single unified volume…
but respond to different scales, and a clear relationship with the apartment buildings… It gives rise to a great projecting overhang, forming a great doorway which allows the opening up of the neighborhood of La Barceloneta…
It forms a singular public space that lower the construction to the ground, until it forms an urban landscape of different dimensions…
The treatment of the façades followed a similar criterion… A series of large windows create interest from close up… while an undifferentiated volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and the noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that blend in with the other constructions along the periphery.
And a singular public space that lower the construction to the ground, until it forms an urban landscape of different dimensions…
The treatment of the façades followed a similar criterion… A series of large windows create interest from close up… while an undifferentiated volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and the noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that blend in with the other constructions along the periphery.
Text by Enric Miralles, 1999
Gas Natural tower in Barcelona:
The new building shows a clear desire to be compatible with its urban surroundings: the small scale of the neighborhood of La Barceloneta…the nearby houses and the park…the new tall buildings of Barcelona.
It has the verticality of an office tower, and the fragmentation of a series of constructions of different scales which in the end form a single unified volume… but respond to different scales, and a clear relationship with the apartment buildings…
It gives rise to a great projecting overhang, forming a great doorway which allows the opening up of the neighborhood of La Barceloneta…
It forms a singular public space that lower the construction to the ground, until it forms an urban landscape of different dimensions…
The treatment of the façades followed a similar criterion…
A series of large windows create interest from close up… while an undifferentiated volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and the noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that blend in with the other constructions along the periphery. And a singular public space that lower the construction to the ground, until it forms an urban landscape of different dimensions…
The treatment of the façades followed a similar criterion…
A series of large windows create interest from close up… while an undifferentiated volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and the noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that blend in with the other constructions along the periphery.
Text by Enric Miralles, 1999
